20 Fingers, an unflinchingly honest study of gender games
in contemporary Tehran. In a series of intimate dialogues, a man and a
woman (played by Akbari and Daneshmand) find the established boundaries
of their relationship being pushed further than ever before. In each
scene the couple (who may not be the same couple in every scene)
confront different aspects of contemporary life - abortion,
homosexuality, infidelity - the woman's modern idealism clashing with
her husband's more traditional attitude. In one scene, the man is
angered by the woman's dancing with another man; in another, she cannot
tolerate her husband's refusal to allow her an abortion. The couples
play a succession of psychological games - the jealousy game, the
betrayal game, the independence game - in which the female is
consistently the stronger player, albeit sometimes a morally
questionable one. Each scene occurs in a confined space - a ski-lift, a
moving car, a train compartment, a table in the corner of a Tehran café.
The hand-held digital photography literally confines the audience to
narrow camera angles just as the couple's relationship is metaphorically
confined by the husband's restricted points of view.

Format: DVD

Runtime: 75 minutesType: Marital IssuesLanguage: In Farsi with English
subtitles

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